Before any editor can answer “why I chose it” in any meaningful way, he or she must first step back and answer “Why edit, to start with?” I edit in part because I want to keep acquainted with the living, breathing life of the art. I edit in part because my inner social scientist likes to have a sense of the broad parameters of the art, this “creative writing,” at any given moment. I edit because once upon a time I was someone (sans MFA, living in an obscure corner of the rural South) whose early poems were picked up by editors out of the slush: there is an ethical compact here, a passionate desire to return that early favor. Finally, I edit because it’s something I can do in those interstices of free time that don’t offer themselves up to more focused exploits: the 18 minutes between student appointments, the 49 minutes between the last task and my lunch date. This may sound cold. Sometimes it is.
The bids are in for the best single front-to-back issue of the old series, and the competition is heated! Kudos to Grant Johnson, Kate Kremer and Hannah Withers for scouring the stacks of back run issues, sizing up the 
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Report on Gender Inequality in Publishing:
Earlier this year VIDA: Women in Literary Arts published an interesting study on gender identity and published writers, featuring statistics regarding literary publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Harpers, and many others. It made quite a splash—as VIDA pointed out, “numbers don’t lie,” and most of these magazines have been publishing male authors to a significantly skewed degree. Neither The Kenyon Review nor KROnline were included in the original article, however, and we were curious. What follows here is a study and short article by one of the remarkable KR Associates, Colleen Damerell. I am grateful for all her work. I think you’ll find it interesting. Click here to read the article and see the stats. 
Why We Chose It On Katy Didden’s “The Soldier on Routine” By G.C. Waldrep, Editor at Large
On the Hunt for the Best Front-to-Back Issue
Click here to see the nominees and then vote for your favorite on Facebook! “Wrong to assume . . . ”: KR’s Young Writers Program Challenges Expectations
Upon moving in for the Kenyon Review Young Writers program, you’ll find that you and your roommate have many things in common. You’ll share a facility with words, a knack for scribbling in the margins of things, a sense that you have exciting work to do, that here you can do it. You’ll find something else too: that there’s much you and your roommate don’t have in common. You’ll come from different states, different countries. You’ll speak with regional accents that make English sound like a foreign language. Your roommate’s parents, unlike your parents, will not be librarians or lawyers or business owners. To make a long story short, you and your roommate will be very different people. And yes, you will likely be of a different race. This is intentional and crucial. This is a big part of the experience you are about to have. Be open. It counts. Click here to learn more about this summer’s Young Writers Workshop.
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The Kenyon Review, Spring 2001, Vol. XXIII, No. 2. The Widower’s Tango Oh Maligna, now you’ve found the letter, now you’ve cried with rage, Click here to finish reading this poem.
The Poet is the Priest of the Invisible —Wallace Stevens Dark-eyed, mysterious Meadowhawk, scribe of the sheer, the barely-there hint of rosewood and ghost. The poet what she labors over is always prone visible through the skin. Gossamer a gauzy lug wrench toward the shadowy limpid clauses, each hyaline verb— Click here to read another poem by Martha Silano. KROnline is the online complement of The Kenyon Review. New fiction, essays, poetry, and reviews are published on a biweekly basis. Check back often to read some of the most cutting edge material you’ll find anywhere on the web. Click here to see our latest offering.
July 21, 2011 — This week as I blog for the Kenyon Review, I am in fact at Kenyon College, visiting during the Kenyon Review Young Writers’ Workshop—getting as an outsider to witness and share in the workshop’s energy and exuberance, and also slipping off to wander the campus and surrounding farmlands and swimming holes on my own. This means such activities as: stopping by the Yeats archives in the Greenslade Special Collections. And: listening in as the workshop’s instructors discuss a wealth of writing prompts, or Prompts, as I’ve come after so much discussion to hear the word in my head. Click here to finish reading this blog post. 
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